Recommend Testing By Poodle Club Of America Foundation, Inc.

 TOY POODLES DNA Test for prcd-Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) from an OFA-approved laboratory. Yearly Eye Exam by a boarded ACVO veterinary ophthalmologist. Patellar Luxation: OFA Evaluation.

MINIATURE POODLES Same CHIC requirements as Toy Poodles with the addition of: Hip Dysplasia: OFA or PennHIP Evaluation. The PCA Foundation strongly recommends the DNA test for Miniature Poodle Dwarfism (Osteochondrodysplasia) to avoid breeding two carriers to each other and producing puppies affected with this deforming and crippling disorder. Research suggests that about 10 percent of Minis carry the mutation that causes this disease and that it is not limited to a few bloodlines.

 STANDARD POODLES Hip Dysplasia: OFA or PennHIP Evaluation. Yearly Eye Exam by a boarded ACVO veterinary ophthalmologist. Health Elective (at least one of the following three tests is required for CHIC number): OFA Thyroid Evaluation from an OFA approved laboratory. OFA Sebaceous Adenitis (SA) Evaluation by an OFA approved dermatopathologist. Heart Evaluation by an ACVIM boarded veterinary cardiologist.